What is Transcendentalism?
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- the belief that knowledge is found not only by observation of the world but also through reason, intuition, and personal spiritual experiences.

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Google Definition:
- A 19th-century idealistic philosophical and social movement that taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity.

Dictionary.com:
- Also called transcendental philosophy. Any philosophy based upon the doctrine that the principles of reality are to be discovered by the study of the processes of thought, or a philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical: in the U.S., associated with Emerson.


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